Saw-swage.



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SAW SWAGE.

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APPLlcAnoN FILED 1u1121. 19111.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

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APPLICATIUN FILED JUNE 21. 1918.

Patented Nov. 5,1918.

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"iai erts 'narrano union JOHN F. PRIBNOW, OF MELLEN, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO E. C. ATKIN S 8c CMPANY, OF

j. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A CRPRATION OF INDIANA.

SAW-S'WAGE.

Speeicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov, 5, Y191s.

Application filed .Tune 21,1918. Sera11\To. 241,168.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN 11 PniBN'ow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mellen, in the county oi' Ashland and State of Visconsin, have invented new and useful Saw-Swages, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object oit-my invention to'iinprove the operation ot' saw swages. fMore particularly, it is the object of my invention to construct and niount the swaging die so that it is of uniform cross section `throughout and has `tour operating corners which may be used 'for substantially the ent-ire length of the die; to make such die synenietrical `about two axes, so that it is inte-rg changeable to bring any of the four corners into working position; to mount thedie in bushings so that in operation only the proper working iace and Corner will engage the saw tooth being swaged, and there will 'be no drag of any other face or corner on the saw tooth; and to mount the die and its bushings in a swage block which is adjust- -able circuiniierentially for diiierent shapes of teeth and in which an improvement in the coperation of the die Vwith the saw tooth for different adjustinents'ot the swag-e block is obtained, by having the center otl adjustment of the swag'e block spaced very slightly outside the-arc in which the working corner of the die rnoves when the swage is operated.

This present invention isin inany respects an improvement and development of the saw swage shown in iny `lPatent No. 1,176,985, granted March 28, 1916.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Figure 1 is a side `elevation of a saw swage einbodying'iny invention, with seine parts broken away and in section to show the cooperation of the parts; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2--2 otFig. 1; F ig. 3 is an enlarged end elevation of the die and bushings, showing the relations-of the various centers to one another; and Figa is a view similar to F ig. 3, showing a slightly modified form ot die.

Thot-rame A10. has a central annular portion 11 set to one Side of the planeoir the saw 12 to be swaged, and forwardly vand lrearwardlif' projecting portions 13 and Y14.

On .the rearwardly projeetngportion -l-fis .'.swaging mounted a rear guide bar 15, which is adjustable both vertically and horizontally to Acontorni At0 the particular saw being operated on. A horizontal guide bar 16 :t'or engaging the tops of the teeth anda pair -oif side fingers 17 for engaging the sides of the saw in front o1 the tooth being operated on iare ad-justably mounted on the vforwardly projecting portion 13.

A swage block 20 extending across the plane of the saw 12 has a cylindrical end 21, which fits within the annular portion v11 ot' the frame 10 and is cireurnferentially adjustable therein about the common center 22 of said cylindrical portion 21 and the inside cylindrical farce of the annular portion lease-the cylindrical portion 21 ot the swage block. Ananvil 25 is mounted in a nearly radial hole 26 in the swage block 20, and this anvil adjustable by an adjusting screw 27 mounted in the outer end of the hole 26 and provided with a lock nut28. Bv removing the screw 27, the anvil may be withdrawn from the outer end of the hole 26. The anvil is reversible end for end,

Vso that either end may be the working end;

and each end has one square face 29 for receiving` the pressure of the screw 27 and one beveled face 8O for engaging theback face of a. tooth beingswaged. When the anvil 25 has been adjusted to proper position by the screw 27, it is clamped in such position by a clamping screw 31. r1`he swage block 20 is bifurcated, so as to provide in its lower portion a slot 52 to receive the saw being swaged, and the working end of the anvil 25 projects into this slot 32. Two clamping screws 83 and 341 are mounted in the two axial ends of the swag@ block 20and project into the slot 32 so as to engage the side faces of the saw at the base of the tooth being I swaged and hold the saw in position for Thesescrews 33 and 3ft-aire sinnlar tothe saw-clamping,screws shown in my aforesaid Patent No. 1,176,985, the screw 33 #being-providedwithra squarehead Sltorvadjusting it to any desired setting, and the screw 34 being provided with a clamping lever 36 whereby it may be operated quickly and conveniently t0 clamp the Saw and release it.

Two longitudinally split bushings 40 are mounted in alined bushing holes 41 in the two axial ends of the swage block 20, and project from the slot 32 outward in opposite directionsbeyond the end faces of the swage block so as to have mounted thereon the two prongs 42 of a bifurcated operating lever 43, so that by the operation of said lever-43 the two bushings 40 4are turned correspondingly. rThe holes 41 are cylindrical holes to permit this turning, having a center' 44; and the bushings 40 are cylindrical exteriorly to fit rotatably within these holes 41, save that within its prong 42 each bushing has a Hat face to cooperate with a clamping' bolt 46 mounted in such prong. These clamping bolts are of the type-shown in my aforesaid Patent No. 1,176,935, and are tightened or loosened to cause the split bushings 40 to grip or release the swaging die 47 mounted within such bushings and extendingl across the slot 32.

The die 47 is a straight bar of uniform cross section throughout, and is received in alined holes 48, corresponding to the die in shape and size of cross-section, extending longitudinally through the bushings 40. Thus the die 47 is supported on both sides of the slot 32, and by loosening the clamping bolts 46 may be adjusted longitudinally within said bushings to bring different portions of the die into working position in the slot 32. The die 47 is symmetrical in cross section about both a longitudinal. or major axis 49 and a transverse or minor axis 50. It has two opposite cylindrical segments 51 each of which has its center 52 on the transverse axis 50 but on the opposite side of the major axis 49 from such segment, as is clear from F ig. 3. The cylindrical segments 51 do not extend to intersect each other; instead they either directly intersect plane faces 53 at the opposite ends of and perpendicular to the major axis 49, as is shown in Fig. 3, or approach close to such plane faces and are connected therewith by cylinder segments 60 and 61 of successively shorter radii having centers 62 and 63 respectively and tangent to each other and to both the adjacent cylindrical segments 51 and plane faces 53, as shown in Fig. 4. The centers 62 are conveniently on the major axis 49, and are common to two segments 60, as this facilitates manufacture. The plane faces 53 and the cylindrical segments 51 form four working corners 54, which 4may thus be either sharp as in Fig. 3 or rounded as in Fig. 4. By reversing the die 47 about the two axes 49 and 50, any one of these four working corners 54 may be brought into working position; and by shifting the die 47 longitudinally in the bushings, nearly the whole length of each working corner (excepting a very small portion at each end of the die) may be used for the swaging operation.

The shape of the holes 48 corresponds to that of the die 47. However, the holes 48 are not formed centrally in the bushings 40. Instead, they are so formed that the center 44 of the outside cylindrical surface of the bushings 40 and of the internal surface of the corresponding holes 41 in the swage block is not on either axis 49 or 50, but lies in the opposite quadrant formed by such axes from that in which the working corner 54 lies. Because of this, when the device is operated in the swaging operation, and the working corner 54-the upper right-hand one of the four corners 54 in Figs. l, 3, and 4-is moved in a counterclockwise direction so that it approaches the beveled working face 30 of the anvil 25,

the immediately following corner 54-the lower right-hand corner-moves entirely within the arc traversed by the working corner 54 and so does not drag and wear on the front face of the saw tooth. That is, as is clear from Fig. 3, both the working corner 54 and the corner 54 which follows it move about the center 44 of the holes 41, but the working corner 54 moves on an arc 55 of larger radius than the arc 56 on which the following corner 54 moves. This is true for both the sharp corners of Fig. 3 and the rounded corners of Fig. 4.

1 have discovered that it facilitates the adjustment for different shapes of saw teeth, and gives a better tooth shape in the different positions of adjustment, if the holes 41 in the swage block 2O are so located that the center 22 about which the swage block 2O is adjusted-that is, the center of the cylindrical portion 21 of the swage block-lies outside of the arc 55 on which the working corner 54 of the die moves, but does so by a distance which is small as compared with the radius of such arc 55. Preferably, the parts are so arranged that the beveled working face 30 of the anvil 25 also lies slightly below the center 22. By this arrangement, the working space between the working corner 54 of the die and working face 30 of the anvil moves circumferentially about and slightly below the center 22 when the swage block is adjusted within the annular portion 11 of the frame.

In Operation, the swage is set on the saw so that the saw projects into the slot 32, the guide bars 15 and 16 coperate properly with the tops of the saw teeth, and one of the saw teeth (the one to be swaged) projects into the space between the lower beveled working face 30 of the anvil 25 and that portion of the cylindrical surface 51 of the die which lies adjacent the working corner 54. At

of which may be brought into working position, and bushings mounted for rotation in said swage block and having through them alined longitudinal holes in which said die lits, the die-receiving hole being arranged in said bushings so that the center of rotation of the bushings and die is displaced from both said major and said minor axes.

5. A saw swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of a saw tooth, a die arranged to act on the front face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and the anvil, said die comprising a straight bar of uniform cross section which is symmetrical about major and minor axes to provide fourworlrino portions any one of which may be brought into working position, and bushings mounted for rotation in said swage block and having through them alined longitudinal holes in which said die fits and is longitudinally adjustable, the die-receiving hole beinfy arranged in said bushings so that the center of rotation of the bushings and die is displaced from both said major and said minor axes.

6. A sawl swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of al saw tooth, a die arranged to act on the front face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and the anvil, said die comprising a straight bar of uniform cross section which is symmetrical about major and minor axes to provide four working portions any one of which may be brought into working position, and bushings mounted for rotation in said swage block and having through them alined longitudinal holes in which said die fits, the die-receiving hole being arranged in said bushings so that the center of rotation of the bushings and die is displaced from both said major and said minor axes and lies in that one of the quadrants formed by said axis which is opposite the one in which the working portion of the die lies.

7. A saw swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of a saw tooth, a die arranged to act on the front face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and the anvil, said die comprising a straight bar of uniform cross section which is symmetrical 'about major and minor axes to provide four working portions any one of which may be brought into working posi tion, and bushings mounted` for rotation in said swage block and having through them alined longitudinal holes in which said die fits and is longitudinally adjustable, the diereceiving hole being arranged in said bushings so that lthe center of rotation of the bushings and die is displaced from both said major and said minor axes and lies in that one of the quadrants formed by said axis which is opposite the one in which the working portion of the die lies.

8. A saw swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of a'saw tooth, a die arranged to act on thefront face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and the anvil, said die comprising a straight bar of uniform cross section, the surface of said bar being formed of two opposite surfaces at the opposite ends of a major axis and two opposite cylindrical surfaces at the opposite ends of a minor axis of the cross section of said bar and both cooperating with both said rst-named surfaces to form four working corners which are the points on the surface of said die of maximum distance from the intersection of said two aXes, and bushings rotatably mounted in said swage block and being provided with alined holes in which said die fits, the center of rotation of said Vbushings and die being displaced from both said major and minor axes.

9.- A saw swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of asaw tooth,a die -arranged to act on the front face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and the anvil, said die comprising a straight bar of uniform cross section, the surface of said bar being formed of two opposite plane surfaces at the opposite ends of a major axis and two opposite cylindrical surfaces at the opposite ends of a minor axis of the cross section of said bar and both coperating with both said first-named surfaces t0 form f-,our working corners which are the points of the surface of said die of maximum distance from the intersection of said two axes, and bushings rotatably mounted in said swage block and being provided with alined holes in which said die fits, the center of rotation of said bushings and die being displaced from both said major and minor axes.

l0. A saw swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of a saw tooth, a die arranged to act on the front face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and the anvil, said die comprising a straight bar of uniform cross section, the surface of said bar being formed of two opposite surfaces atv the opposite ends of a major axis and two opposite cylindricall surfaces at the opposite ends of a minor axis of the cross section of said bar and both cooperating with both said first-named surfaces to form four working corners which are the points on the surface of said die of maximum distance from the intersection of said two axes, and bushings rotatably mounted in said swage block and being provided with alined holes in which said die fits and is longitudinally adjustable, the center of rotation of said bushings and die being displaced from both said major and minor axes.

11. A saw swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block of the cross section of said bar and both cooperating With both said rst-named surfaces to form four working corners which are the points on the surface of said die of* maximum distance from the intersection of said two aXe's, and bushings rotatably mounted in said swage block and being provided with alined holes in which said die fits and is longitudinally adjustable, the center of rotation of said bushings and die being displaced from both said major and minor axes.

l2. A saw sWage, comprising a sWage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of a saw tooth, a die arranged to act on the front face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and the anvil, said die being rotatably mounted in said swage block, a frame in which said swage block is circumferentially adjustable, the center of adjustment of said swage block lyingoutside the arc of travel of any point on the Working surface of the die and outside the working space between the die and anvil but spaced therefrom by a distance which is small as compared with the radius of rotation of the Working part of the die.

18. A saw swage, comprising a swage block, an anvil mounted in said swage block to bear against the back of a saw tooth, a die arranged to act on the front face of the saw tooth to compress the latter between the die and outside the working space between mounted in said swage block, a frame in which said swage block is circumferentially adjustable, the center of adjustment of said swage block lying outside the arc of travel of any point on the working surface of the die but spaced therefrom by a distance which is small as compared with the radius of rotation of the working part of the die.

ln witness whereof I, JOHN F. PnrNoW, have hereunto set my hand at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, this 17th day of J une, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

JOHN F. PRIBNOW.

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Certicate 0l Correction.

It is herebyY certified that in Letters Patent N0. Llhlll, grunted November 5, 1918, upon the application el John F. lribnow, of Mellen, Wisconsin, for an improvement in Saw Swuges, an eri-0r appears in the printed Specification requiring` correction as fellows: Page .3, line 4S, claimI 13, strike ont the Words outside the Working space between and insert instead the dfn/Uil, said /Zz'e being f/'ozfzmblfh' and that the said Letters Patent should he read with this correction therein that the saine may conform to the record et the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 11th day of November, A. D. 1924.

r [SEAL] KAR-L FENNING, 

